This is exactly where my programming career started. I was a young kid, aged 11 or 12, learning Visual Basic 5 & 6, making UIs that were backed by coms
(I think that's what they were called?) downloaded off the internet.
I wasn't knowledgeable enough to write the coms but I could make interfaces that called the functions within them. I made little apps that let you change the chat colours and phishing apps to message people so you could appear like an AOL staff member and maybe get their username and password.
Those same chatrooms are where I was exposed to pornography for the first time. My innocence never recovered from that, but it is what it is.
I wasn't knowledgeable enough to write the coms but I could make interfaces that called the functions within them. I made little apps that let you change the chat colours and phishing apps to message people so you could appear like an AOL staff member and maybe get their username and password.
Those same chatrooms are where I was exposed to pornography for the first time. My innocence never recovered from that, but it is what it is.